It turned out that he had been working for the Israeli intelligence service, Shin Bet.
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Shin Bet has said Iran tries to recruit such people when they leave to visit relatives.
At the time, the Shin Bet asked that Blau return all the classified documents in his possession.
That's in keeping with the contention of Yuval Diskin, the first of the Shin Bet leaders to speak.
The Shin Bet security service says the bombs in the market could be the first of a series.
Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin stated that Israel will not change its screening process of candidates for military service.
Jaradat admitted to the charge, as well to another West Bank rock-throwing incident last year, Shin Bet said in a statement.
In return for his agreement to do so, the Shin Bet agreed not to prosecute him for illegally possessing classified materials.
After their arrest on information from Israel's internal intelligence agency, Shin Bet, several of these individuals were released by the Palestinian Authority.
Only this week it was revealed, amid Israeli intelligence chuckles, that a Hamas founder's son had been a long-serving Shin Bet agent.
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Domestic security agency Shin Bet recommended heightened security for Israeli airline El Al, Israeli shipping, and synagogues around the world, the radio reported.
Most of the Israeli media, for instance, highlighted remarks by outgoing Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin asserting that the agreement is likely to be short-lived.
When Blau found out that the Shin Bet knew he lied, and still illegally possesses thousands of classified documents, he decided not to return to Israel.
Listen for instance to Ami Ayalon, once head of the Shin Bet security service, describing in an interview with Le Monde the wrong-headedness of current Israeli policy.
It said the police inquiry must include the "full circumstances" surrounding his death, including how he was treated during questioning by Israel's domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet.
As Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin explained on Sunday, under the present circumstances, Hamas can be expected to rebuild its arsenals in as little as three months.
When four past chiefs of the Shin Bet security service declared in November that the present policy was leading Israel to disaster, the whole country caught its breath.
By Alfon's telling, Israel's draconian Shin Bet security agency had "disappeared" one reporter - Anat Kamm - and caused another - Uri Blau - to flee the country.
The prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and his defence minister, Yitzhak Mordechai, are said to have been inundated with warnings from the Shin Bet security service about two possible dangers.
General Dagan says that Gabi Ashkenazi, who headed the armed forces, and Yuval Diskin, who until last month ran the internal-intelligence service, the Shin Bet, both agree with him.
Ami Ayalon, a government minister and a former head of the Shin Bet, the domestic intelligence agency, argues that Hamas has already shown the potential to become more moderate.
So, too, Diskin admitted that the Shin Bet was loath to aggressively pursue the investigation because its officers didn't want to be accused of impinging on freedom of the press.
Israel's attorney general said Wednesday that Shin Bet, the country's internal security force, can search a foreign traveler's e-mail, but only in exceptional cases in which "relevant suspicious signs" are observed.
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The Shin Bet launched its investigation of stolen IDF documents, which led it to Blau and then to Kamm after Blau published articles in November 2008 based on the documents he received from Kamm.
The Israeli government is split on both this and other issues, and the hardline camp, led by Avi Dichter, the head of the Shin Bet (the domestic security service), has lost some recent debates.
As the head of the Shin Bet in 1984, he ordered the summary execution of two terrorists who had been captured alive after hijacking an Israeli bus en route from Tel Aviv to Ashkelon.
And it was with the knowledge that their reporter lied to the Shin Bet and fled the country that Haaretz chose to pay his living expenses in London and his legal expenses in Israel.
Olmert's comments came days after the former head of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak for their handling of Iran, saying neither inspires confidence.
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Haaretz staff reporter Uri Blau fled the country not to protect a source, but to evade punishment for possessing classified military documents in breach not only of the law but of a plea bargain agreement with the Shin Bet.
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